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Fly Away, Pigeon (Paperback)
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Fly Away, Pigeon (Paperback)
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Tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration
and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former
Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland. In this novel, Melinda Nadj
Abonji interweaves two narrative strands, recounting the history of
three generations of the Kocsis family and chronicling their
hard-won assimilation. Originally part of Serbia's
Hungarian-speaking minority in the Vojvodina, the Kocsis family
immigrates to Switzerland in the early 1970s when their hometown is
still part of the Yugoslav republic. Parents Miklos and Rosza land
in Switzerland knowing just one word-"work." And after three years
of backbreaking, menial work, both legal and illegal, they are
finally able to obtain visas for their two young daughters, Ildiko
and Nomi, who safely join them. However, for all their efforts to
adapt and assimilate they still must endure insults and prejudice
from members of their new community and helplessly stand by as the
friends and family members they left behind suffer the maelstrom of
the Balkan War. With tough-minded nostalgia and compassionate
realism, Fly Away, Pigeon illustrates how much pain and loss even
the most successful immigrant stories contain. It is a work that is
intensely local, while grounded in the histories and cultures of
two distinct communities. Its emotions and struggles are as
universal as the human dilemmas it portrays.
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